1922 W. W. Scott Stand. Methods Chem. Anal. (ed. 3) I. 191 Should circumstances be such that the quantity be more than can be estimated by the appearance of the sulphide precipitate and a determination without rerun is necessary, the precipitate is filtered, incinerated, [etc.].

1930 Times 23 June 7/5 On the second occasion Bailey was offered a re-run.

1976 H. Wilson Governance of Brit. iii. 65 A tendency developed in the 1960s for a defeated minister almost automatically to seek for a re-run at Cabinet.

1988 J. Stevenson Fair Deal in Betting (Sporting Life) (ed. 2) 21 In the event of a re-run or of a false start or breakaway, bets at SP are governed by the prices current at the time of the original ‘off’, false start or breakaway.

2000 P. Gold Europe or Afr.? iii. 65 The Partido Popular appealed for a re-run of the election in Melilla because of electoral irregularities.

1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Re-run..the presentation of a motion picture after its first run; also, the picture itself when so exhibited.

1965 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 Nov. 1070/4 Re-runs of old silent films.

1971 Wall St. Jrnl. 22 July 1/5 Liberty magazine, which was around from 1924 until 1950, makes a comeback with reruns of its old articles.

1979 Dædalus Summer 15 The current quarrel..is just the latest rerun of that earlier script.

2003 C. Berlinski Loose Lips ii. 42 Nathan had been congealed to the living room couch, watching reruns of South Park.

1936 U.S. Patent 2,045,435 1/1 A construction which will enable cross-addition to be performed in a record controlled machine once and to render the cross added results available on subsequent re-runs of the records through the tabulating machines.

1946 Man. Operation Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Harvard Computation Lab.) ii. 50 Starting, stopping and rerun instructions.

1958 C. G. Gotlieb & J. N. P. Hume High-speed Data Processing xiv. 293 Generators have also been written for editing, re-run procedures, tape checking, and moving records.

1980 R. Longbottom Computer Syst. Reliability vii. 105 A further category of rerun time is incurred when it is found that previously created files have been lost... The time to restore files is again application dependent.

2007 M. Lutz Learning Python (ed. 3) 670 Here is..a rerun of the test to show its format.

1909 Jrnl. Hygiene 9 222 The re-run starch is next put into ‘breakers’.

1929 Amer. Speech 4 386 The term smoke is comparatively new..and means an inferior grade of whitish, cloudy alcohol, usually re-run alky at that.

1968 A. Diment Great Spy Race vii. 94 The excuses running through their minds like re-run television shows.

1995 Time Out 9 Aug. 152/5 Re-run cookery show that turns its sights on cheese, with ideas on how to knock up an alcoholic fondue and a delicious goat's cheese dressing.

1804 J. Larwood No Gun Boats 8 We must re-run the gantelope of our Bounties and Recruitings.

1859 C. Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) II. 170 I request you, after you have finished, just to re-run over the heads.

1924 Industr. & Engin. Chem. Nov. 1113 The sourness developed in rerunning a sweetened oil.

1927 Punch 27 July 85/3 A greyhound race at the White City had to be re-run last week because the electric hare ran too fast.

1962 ‘D. Shannon’ Extra Kill vii. 103 There was a picture Fox made... Last week I saw it's being rerun at a neighborhood house.

1967 E. Chambers Photolitho-offset XV. 239 The product cannot be re-run through the machine.

1994 Amer. Spectator Nov. 51/2 The night before the recent Mexican elections, ‘60 Minutes’ re-ran ‘Subcomandante Marcos’, an interview with the leader of the Chiapas rebellion that Ed Bradley had conducted earlier this year.

1922 Proc. Amer. Soc. Civil Engineers 48 1512 Experiments with the three sections thus obtained were then re-run and compared.

1946 Man. Operation Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Harvard Computation Lab.) vi. 287 Ease of rerunning a computation in the wake of an error..must also be considered.

1969 G. B. Davis Computer Data Processing x. 229 Rerun the program until it hangs up and then obtain information on contents of registers.

1977 Virology 78 207/2 The DNA isolated by this procedure was then rerun in a CsCl density gradient.

2003 J. W. Habraken Microsoft Office 2003 All-in-one xv. 664 At any time you can rerun your query.